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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

Pall Mall series of National monuments no. 6. The Statue of Liberty, New York. (1914) “A 1914 Pall Mall advetisement, using Lady Liberty to exemplify the American freedoms that smoking brings!”

Pall Mall series of National monuments no. 6. The Statue of Liberty, New York. (1914)

“A 1914 Pall Mall advetisement, using Lady Liberty to exemplify the American freedoms that smoking brings!”

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Trading card from the series “Occupations of Women,” issued by the Old Judge and Dog’s Head Cigarette Company, 1887. (HT The New Psalmanazar)

Trading card from the series “Occupations of Women,” issued by the Old Judge and Dog’s Head Cigarette Company, 1887. (HT The New Psalmanazar)

lostsplendor:

Cigarette Card Portraits, 1906-1922

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thestuartkings: Cigarette Card - King Charles II R.J.Lea’s Cigarettes “MIniatures, Gold Border” (series of 50 issued in 1912) #29 King Charles II ~ by John Greenhill

thestuartkings:

Cigarette Card - King Charles II

R.J.Lea’s Cigarettes “MIniatures, Gold Border” (series of 50 issued in 1912)

#29 King Charles II ~ by John Greenhill
silentcuriosity:  Anna Held Standard Reference: Cartophilic reference books Source: [Cigarette cards.] / Guinea gold series -  Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / George Arents Collection

silentcuriosity:

 Anna Held Standard Reference: Cartophilic reference books Source: [Cigarette cards.] / Guinea gold series -  Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / George Arents Collection

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drakecaperton: Lon Chaney Cigarette card

drakecaperton:

Lon Chaney

Cigarette card

nypl:

What is the difference between a photographer and the whooping cough?

Why are ‘Capstan’ Cigarettes like L100,000?

Why is a school boy being flogged like you eye?

Why a plum cake is like the ocean?

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For more delightfully dumb old-time jokes, go to the library’s digital collection of “riddle” cigarette cards. (Warning: they really are dumb.)

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ofpaperandponies: How ironic that a collectible card from a pack of cigarettes is instructing civilians on how to use a respirator to save themselves from a gas attack…

ofpaperandponies:

How ironic that a collectible card from a pack of cigarettes is instructing civilians on how to use a respirator to save themselves from a gas attack…

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cabbagingcove: “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag…” - 1932 I’m gathering that this person’s troubles consist of children and a puppy…

cabbagingcove:

“Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag…” - 1932

I’m gathering that this person’s troubles consist of children and a puppy…